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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Accounting tor the MnIe.

w nen L was Young lieutenant in
the -th Massachusetts battery" said
the professor to writer in the Boston
Record. Il was stationed with the
battery on the railroad track between
Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans
1t was necessary 10 guard the line at
that point and there was just enough
solid ground on the embankmenl which
at that point ran through sn almost
impenetrable swamp infested by alli-
gators, copperheads and bushwhackers.
for US to hang on 10. My tent was
pitched so near the track that there was
barely enough room for the trains to
pass without tearing the tent to pieces
and smashing its occupants There
was q freight train that passed through
between and 5 O'Clock every morning,
shrieking as it did so. For five or six
times | woke up each morning with the
impression that the train was going
straight over my body, and was on the
point of leaping into the middle of the
track or anywhere else. but after awhile
/ began to grow accustomed to it
''One morning. however. the train
came through with such series of wild
and unaccustomed shriekS that start
ed up with a sense that something aw-
ful was happening. and. just as | was
trying to realize what il all was, the top
of my tent-pole gave away with a snap,
and there came crashing down through
the roof of the tent the mangled body of
= mule that had been straying on the
track, and had been casually thrown
my way by the locomotive. The poor
animal was not dead but was badly
done for. and | ordered the guard to
knock him in the head and drag HIM
away. 1t was done.
This might have ended the Incl
dent but, as any soldier will know, it
didn't That day the corporal of the
guard who had killed the mule came to
me and said:
Lieutenant that muie has got to
be accounted for What shall we do?'
- suppose we can put him down as
''lost in an engagement. said /, But
l don't suppose that will work, after
all
But must / pay for him?' asked
the corporal.
Il told him | would think about it.
and did think about il \ little, but the
next day the corporal came 10 me and
said:
Lieutenant. we've got that mule all
right
What mule?' said ].
oh, that mule that was hurt said
he. He's all right now
81 went with him in amazement, and
he showed me a handsome mule with n
fresh u. s branded on his flank.
did not say word. What was there
for me to say?
within II day or two after that a
poor white planter came around look
ing for something. He said he had lost
a mule, and somehow he got into camp
and succeeded in running down an ami
NAL that he swore looked exactly like
his. But there was one circumstance
that was dead against him. His mule
didn't have u. s branded ON bis
flank"
"Well. what did he do about it?"
''He didn't do anything about it He
couldn't swear the u S off the mules
flank. could he?n
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

in Tennessee and Kentucky is ceneraI
though not 50 heavy, the area being syiveT
10 miscellaneous crops
The southern states show the usual In
crease IN cotton acreage, with perhaps a
greater extension Of the cereals fban usn-
ally. In the Carolinas the increase fs fffs
year in corn, while in Georgia the area ~
that cereal is much divided bv the moor
stand and prospect Of oats. Ionisiana
ana Mississippi are raising more oats and
Texas has largely increased her area m
corn as well as cotton Several coresnond-
ents in Arkansas remark that planters are
hnding no money in cotton at six and
elght cents per pound and are devotipg
more room TO both corn and oats.
There is but little general change in
| wheat acreage, the seeding of some areas
10 grass and other crops in the older states
being balanced by fresh lands in Others.
In the states Of the central west it is per-
haps narrowed somewhat, while in the
northwest and transmississippi states the
deficiency Is made up. In Iowa and Mis-
souri, corn has gained this year at the ex-
pense of wheat and in the latter state OF
meadows injured by the severe winter.
More than the usual attention seems to
be devoted to the use Of fax, the area be-
ing reported rs increased in some cOun-
ties in New York, Michigan and states Of
the northwest
The states and territories into which the
tlde OF immigration is steadily pouring
snow marked increases in the total culti-
Vated area, though the portions devoted to
the principal crops are not materially
changed
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
The Bravest Man of All.

But the bravest man of all, the one who
has the best and most unimpeachable
right and claim to courage, is the man
who, TO shield and protect others, accepts
open insult and submits unmurmuringly
to open censure, criticism and indignity.
This is harder than heading an army,
harder than wearing a royal crown, harder
than preaching truth and right to gen
Grafton of fools. In al my life | have
known of but one such man, and though
l never have met him revere him as a
god; and yet the world would question
my sanity il wrote his name where il
belongs, high up in the list of heroes. =
North American Review.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

A correspondent in Rural New Yorker
gives the following instructions about
making drags: A one horse drag made of
four two inch planks viii be heavy enough.
If made of one inch boards weights must be
added. For two horses l use four boards
one foot wide, two inches thick and ten
feet long. When the driver rides, this is
heavy enough. When used to cover grass,
turnip or flax seeds, it is heavy enough OF
itself. For four horses, for use on wheat
and corn land, five two inch planks, six
teen feet long and one foot wide, viii be
about right. With one team ut each end
Of this, four acres an hour can be put into
the best possible condition for the wheat
drill or the corn planter. These drags arc
made in two ways-by spiking the planks
to pieces of four by four inch scantling, as
in the first cut, or by boiling the planks
together, as in the second cut.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
High Cost of a College Education

A German complains that q poor
mans son can't 60 to college here be-
cause it costs so much. He wrote to
the members of the graduating class
of Yale, and, from the 100 answers
received, found that the average cost
for the four years course was $500.
He says that he knows the son of a
German pastor here who passed a
brilliant examination at Princeton,
and yet can't go on with his course
because it costs SO much.-Nesc York
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Type-Setting Machines

Type-composing machines are in use
in half-a-dozen large offices in New
York. While it is a fast compositor
who can set 10000 ems day, team
of three machine operators can aver
age 10000 ems a day if working on
reprint copy and not required to
change the length of the lines The
first cost of the composing machine
and its liability to get out of repair
stand in the way of its general adop.
ton. but the compositors generally
take it for granted that a machine or
process may at any time be invented
which will take the place of the hand
compositor in plain type-setting-
NesD York Standard.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
,,, o.o,,,a Roouet

Orchid amateurs must be wild with
envv at the description of the jubilee or
child boouet sent to the queen at BUCK.
ingham palace. 1t is five feet hlgh' ., on
elobular shape, and is composed OF the
STarest of orchids and orchid leaves alone
Fifty spikes of each species are !. intro. ,sa
duced. representing fifty years OF the
o,,eer,'s reign; orange red blooms twine
into the letters ". R. l." while o
golden variety forms a crown surmoun1-
inc the whole boquet.-Clncago News.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

AT special communication of the
Masonic Grand Lodge Of Connecticut
in April last, the charter of Hiram
Lodge, No. /, New Haven, was revoked!
and the W. NJ, Senior Warden and
Junior Warden, were expelled from
Masonry; aud it appearing that meet.
ings have continued to be held, Grand
Master Green has issued an edict declGr'
ing the Lodge clandestine, and all per
sons initiated therein to be clandestine
MasOns
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
A Story of Bishop wnberforce.

A few days ago heard a good story
of Bishop Wilberforce, which l have
never seen in print, and which is GER
tainly not to be found in his ''Life. F"
The bishop was travelling on the Great
Western railway, In one of the old
fashioned broad gauge carriages. and
was seated at one end of it, when he
heard truculent voice at the other
exclaim: II would dearly like to meet
that bishop of Oxford. viii be bound
1 would puzzle him." VERY well,
replied the bishop to the speaker VINO
had not perceived him. '.now is your
time, for am that person. The man
was rather taken aback. but. quickly
recovering, said: .'Well. my lord,
can you tell plain man a plain way
to get to heavenp' Certainly" said
the bishop; nothing is more easy.
You have only to turn at once to the
right, and go straight forward. "-Loa-
don Truth.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Not Entitled.
Miss. :. July 20, 1887.

-, hIssI JuIy -0i 107''
To the Grand Secretary of Masons:
am obliged to appeal to the Masonic
fraternity, through you, for assistance
Nv husband died recently, leaving me
with three small children, in very strait
ened circumstances. The Lodge here
ignores me, although my husband was 8
Mason. He Omitted from - Lodge
but did not join the Lodge here because
he was unable to pay She annual dues.
hope you can devise some way of assist
ing me.
With much resDect
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd
Fellows will hold its next session at
Denver, Colorado, during the week com
mencing September 10. Brothers L. h.
Barber, of Woodville, and w. j. Brad
shaw, of Summit, will represent Missls-
sippi. The Colorado brethren have made
elaborate preparations for the reception
and entertainment of the Representa-
tives and ladies who may accompany
them
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

Clerical gent Ito fellow passenger)-
Have you ever thought that in the midst
of life we are in death? Fellow-pass-
enger-Of Often Have yonreilected that
at any moment we may be hurled into
eternity, and that we ought to be pre-
pared for that eventP' s.Pve said so q
million times" rs it possible that /
am speaking to brother clergymana
l judged from your dress" sTm
an insurance agent. just let me
show you q few figures-"-Phiiddel
-kis Record.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
a Good Plank Drag.

One Of the most valuable implements on
farm, the cost considered, is a good
plank drag. 1t acconplishes more work
than either the roller or the harrow can
do The further soil is removed from "A
virgin state, the greater is the need for
thorough pulverization; this is especially y
true of clay soils, and plank drags are ad-
mirable instruments for doing the work
a good time to use a plank drag is as
soon after plowing as the soil is dry
enough to crumble
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Advertising Rates.

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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
The Ras,e. Were All Right.

''Ten pounds of anise seed, - he said to
the drug clerk.
"Graciousr exclaimed the embryo
apothecary, "colic at the Founding asy-
lumf'' :,
mo; fox hunting on Long Island, sir. +"
New York Mail and Express.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

The planks are Tapped, as this gives cut
ting edges to grind up the clods When
not in use, turn the drag edgewise against
a tree or on the north side of fence,
where it will be shaded. 1t is best to
have two clevises placed equidistant from
the center and about as far apart rs half
the length of the drag. A chain attached
to these, long enough to place the horses
some three feet from the drag, will make
it run steadier than if the team were
hitched to the center.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Trichiniasis in Italy.

Trichinae has been discovered in q
human body which was being prepared
for anatomical demonstration at the Uni,
versity of Camerino. The man had lived
for many years In neighboring com.
mune and died without the presence OF
the trichina being suspected. Peculiar
interest attaches TO the case for the rea-
son that it is said TO be the first case OF
trichiniasis ever observed in ltaly.-Chi-
caro NewR
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

THE CITY of Paris has accepted COPY
80 Rartholdi's statue of Liberty En-
s;ehten;ne the World" to buy which
Americans living in Paris had subscribed
al cor, francs. and will have it put ON the
;sIayd in the Seine named Grenelle, and
f,,-n;sbed t5,,-, with lighting apparatus at q
cost of l06, 900 francs, when nciuues
the expense of many Improvements vn,, anu
decorations of the isiand.-Ne" AolA
Commercial Advertiser.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Rat and Mouse Proof seed nac.

A correspondent in Prairie Farmer uses
WIRE netting, such as is employed in the
manufacture Of window screens, to make
bags for seed. These bags are made by
folding the edges and hammering a three
eighth inch wide seam down firmly. No
sewing is needed. Seeds can he put into
these bags while yet moist, il too many
are not punched together, as they viii dry
as wen as on paper These wire bags are
both rat and mouse proof
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Useful Classification of Fowls.

All Of our domestic fowls are useful
but in varying degrees or in different
directions. No classification upon theil
useful qualities can be made which viii
oe complete. The following, however, by
The Poultry World, will be of value te
many readers:
Egg producers; Leghorns, Hamburgs
Russians, Minorcas, Black Spanish, Polisf
and Andalusian.
Table fowls: Dorkings, Houdares, Ii
rleche, Games, Crevecours, Brahmas
CochinS, Langshans.
General utility fowls: Plymouth Rocks
Wyandottes, Javas, Dominiques.
But all such classifications are far from
complete, for some of the table fowls arr
excellent layers and some of the great egE
producers are fitted to satisfy the taste o
an epicure.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
The Area devoted 20 leading Crops.

The total area of cultivated land widens
rom year to year with new territory, but
the comparative area devoted to principal
crops, according to The National Statis-
ucian, really changes but little. 1t occa-
sionally occurs that the acreage devoted to
some OF the principal crops is unavoidably
largely augmented at the expense OF 9TH
ers, as was the case with oats and corn
planted on extensive areas of winter
Killed wheat, in 1885, but the next
season will show the balance again natur-
any adjusted. The present year has Wit
messed this forced change, but only 10
united extent.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania put nu-
iherous fields of winter killed wheat
i,lto corn and oats, while in Ohio the area
1evoted to the latter grain is much en-
iarged at the expense of both wheat ana
Siover injured by the winter The New
England states show little variation In
.ne total area In New York the increas-
Gu Importance Of dairying and stock rais-
ne Is gradually widening the breadth OF
meadow and pasture land, though there
appears no diminution OF cultivated area.
Tobacco, says Statistician Dodge, Is the
oniy crop the area of which ts reuuceu
wherever grown. Atruling prices IL Is )
uhremunerative in New England ana
pennsylvania, and considerable p0ruon
~ its area Is being devoted to small crops.
maryland, Virginia and North Caronna
snow a heavy decline, the area In the nrst
s1atc going to grass, and IN the others q
Grass and the spring cereals fogetner:
Dome counties In these states report lna.
me acreage will fall on 50 per cent, ano
40 some cases even more. The fallinR on
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

pRoyrpENcE man astonished his
friends recently, by saying he was consid-
ersbly interested in fowersy and intended
that At day 70 plant some "chritian anthems
He meant ntchrysanthemums--Providence chry
Journal.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
STAPLE CROPS OF THE COUNTRY
AND THE AREA THESE OCCUPY.

How to Make "A Useful Plank Drag at n
and How to Circumvent It-CIassiflca-
tion of Fowls.
There is but little land that is free
from cut worms, or few crops not subject
to their depredations. While cut worms
are especially destructive to the corn
crops, they also greatly injure root and
garden crops. Most farmers here had
experience with these pests, which from
the time when the earliest shoots begin TO
appear in the garden and field cause de
struction by eating off the tender stalks
at tn surface of the ground.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

At the doors of the national capital
of Mexico soldiers with fixed bayonets
stand, and soldiers are distributed
throughout the corridors.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

An elevator with capacity OF 4o0,o ,ooo
bushels was recently built IN Chicago,
from foundation to rooftree, IN fourteen
DAYS.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

Cornelius Vanderbilt is purchasing
orchids by the carloads for his house
ct Newport.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
THE FRATERNITIES.

THE Grand Lodge Knights and Ladies
of Honor met at Aberdeen yesterday.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-12
PLACING OF ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

The placing of the electric lights
for the city, now in progress, is APP
parently not done to the best advan-
tage in every instance, Where two
streets cross each other at right
angles, or nearly at right angles, in
some cases the posts from which the
lights are to be suspended have been
placed at the corners, whichare far
from the best positions for shedding
light on both streets alike and in
each direction from the center.
Whereas, if there were two posts,
diagonally opposite each other on
the street corners, and the light sus-
pended between them in the center
of the crossing, much larger area
would be lighted and in the four
different directions. Certainly these
lights, which are being erected at
the public sxpense and for the pub
lie benefit, should be placed where
they will be of the greatest service
to the greatest number.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-12
AN ECCENTRIC DRUG.

Among the standard medinines
quoted in the medical books Of
Nuremburg of two hundred years
ago are 'portons of the embalmed
bodies of mans flesh, brought from
the neighborhood of Memphis,
where there are many bodies that
have been buried for more than
one thousand years, called mumia,
which have been embalmed with
costly salves and balsams and smell
strongly of myrrh, aloes and other
fragrant things"
The learned doctors of France,
Germany and Italy all made great
use of this eccentric drug, and in
the Seventeenth century grievous
complaints arose of its adulteration.
M. Poinet, chief apothecary to
the French King, records that the
Kings physician went to Alexan-
dria to judge for himself in this
matter, and, having made friends
with q Jewish dealer in mummies,
was admitted to his store-house,
where he saw piles of bodies. He
asked what kind of bodies were
used and how they were prepared.
The Jew informed him that he
took such bodies as he could get,
whether they died of some disease
or of some contagion.
He embalmed them with the
sweepings Of various old drugs,
myrrh, aloes, pitch and gums,
wound them about with a cere
cloth, and then dried them in an
oven, after which he sent them to
Europe, and marveled to see the
Christians where lovers of such fill
thiness. But even this revelation
did not suffice to put mummy physic
out of fashion, and we know that
Francis | of France always carried
with him a well-tilled medicine chest,
of which this was the principal in
gredient.
A traveller also records how one
of.his friends found in the tombs of
Ghi4eh jar carefully sealed, which
he opened and found to contain
such excellent honey that he could
not resist eating a good deal Of it,
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-12
A SQUARE LOOK IN THE FACE.

EDITOR BULLETIN:--Haying care
fully perused, digested and thought
over your editorial of October 10th,
l can't help but agreeing with you
in good many things, and especially
with your remark saying that you
are on the fence. 1t is indeed a
good thing to be there, look on, and
pass comments upon the noteworthy
affairs on either side; but the
fence is a hard place to sit on. You
will generously and kindly receive this
from me as a light padding, and /
hope you will sit more comfortably
on your perch.
Your visitor makes the remark
that two of the present ministry
must 90 out. 70 which you reply:
"That is where l disagree with YOU"
Now, my dear sir, it is quite ilm9ma-
terial whether ] agree or disagree
with this opinion of your guest, or
with your own view of the matter,
but it is certainly Of material inte-
rest to everybody TO sift down, re-
view and argue from facts; proven,
undenieable facts, who is right, who
is wrong. After we review and
argue at length all the points
of our recent political blum
dering we, or rather every fair
minded man, must come to the con-
clusion that the remedy lies only,
solely and entirely with the people,
or which is SYNONYMOUS, the Legis-
iatnre. Let US argue: Let us take
the case of all four ministers first.
AS everybody now knows they were
chosen by comparative few men of
the League and took position pledg-
ed to their nominators, electors and
the League.
1 maintain that neither the Lea.
que, nor the newly appointed Min
isteFs, had a right to exact OF give a
pledge. They Numbered. They
were wrong. They, ! have not the
least doubt, acted in good feith. but
the fact still remains, the four gep-
tlemen blundered. Let us be gen
erous and say they Numbered for
the good OF their party, their coun-
try.